Comdex Fall 2003 trade-show is approaching us and some companies have already started to leak certain juicy facts about their products to be demonstrated at the exhibition. One of such firms is MSI, who is going to reveal a number of its new devices next week and who has already uncovered its new nForce2-based mainboard featuring mysterious MCP2-S I/O controller with native Serial ATA-150 support from NVIDIA.

NVIDIA’s MCP2-S and MCP2-S1000 are probably one of the most mysterious media and communication processors from the company. The controllers are believed to bring Serial ATA-150 as well as Gigabit Ethernet functions in and were originally projected to come this June. Then unofficial sources restated plans of the Santa Clara, California-based core-logic designer and we expected the new South Bridges to emerge this September. After the new MCPs did not show up in early Fall, in mid-October some sources close to ABIT indicated its intention to bring AN7 mainboard with MCP2-S controller. Unfortunately, ABIT has changed its mind and decided not to wait for the MCP2-S, but to stick to the MCP2-T. Well, the odyssey seems to be over, as some boys from this forum noticed MSI – one of the largest NVIDIA’s customers – officially mentioning about NVIDIA’s I/O processors with Serial ATA-150 and Gigabit Ethernet support.